Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The Poker chiseler, who knows considerably more about Poker
The Poker chiseler, who knows considerably more about Poker than the occasional and habitual Poker player and looks on both with elaborate contempt. As often as not, the Poker chiseler proves to be a grifter with morals at low tide. He is a champ at stealing chips, failing to put his ante into the pot—and when reminded swears on a stack of Bibles that someone else was the culprit. The Poker chiseler steals from the occasional and habitual players but is barred by Poker players who can't stand chiselers.
The professional Poker operator,
The professional Poker operator, who earns his living (or most of it) by operating a Poker room. He usually gambles to start the game. Basically, he is a businessman who understands his trade, who runs a Poker game for direct hourly levies or a fixed percentage on each Poker pot for defraying his overhead and giving gamblers a place to play Poker.